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Jean de la Bruyere Quote: 'Two persons cannot long be friends ...'

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It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.
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All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.


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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
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To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
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Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.


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The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
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Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.


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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.


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Parenting now is a two-way relationship where you learn from each other.


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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.


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I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth.
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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.


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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
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When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
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Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
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There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
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